On Thursday 27 October 2005 21:51, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Russell Coker wrote:
> > or the forwarding mechanism. Is it common that users will have such a
> > lack of control when using systems that implement SPF?
>
> It shouldn't be in our demographics (Debian developers). But for the type
> of user that have their email handled by, say, AOL or hotmail, well...
>
> Of course, gmail changed that a little.
Do AOL or hotmail check SPF on receipt? Do they forward without munging it in
an appropriate manner?
Sure the typical hotmail user can't configure such things, but for this to be
a problem we need to have hotmail check SPF and a commonly used forwarding
system not munge the headers.
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